Current Events > Have you ever lived next to a cemetary before?

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A little different from my other topic. If so how was the experience? Any spooky stuff happen?
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Sort of. I had one large modern graveyard about a five minute walk from my house. About three hundred yards from my house was what must have been a smaller family plot. It was pretty old and fenced in with maybe six(?) graves. It wasn't really next to it since it was across a neighbor's big-ass yard and behind some trees.

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Where I was raised in Pennsylvania, our house was very old, and dated back to the early 1800s. Our basement led to an old mine shaft that was part of the underground railroad for moving slaves. It had caved in, I don't know what year, but it went nearly a half mile deep before the wall of wood and dirt blocked it off. We lived on 70 acres so we had no neighbors within nearly a mile.

Me and my friends would go in the basement, walk a while into that mine shaft and sit there and just listen, smoke cigs and drink soda. We would hear all kinds of strange noises, clanking, faint voices, small flashes of light and would experience something nearly every time. It was clear metal on hard object noises. We weren't afraid, just more fascinated. There's no way it was outside interference from normal life, it was just energy. It's hard to explain, but it was very real and powerful.

I don't know if i'd call it "ghosts" but more energy trapped in time, and replayed in small bursts. They say energy is neither created or destroyed, so maybe part of the mine just absorbed this energy and played it back at times, and gave us a second of looking back into history. It was real, not definitive, but not delusion. It was a tad emotional because given the history, real living people passed through there to save their own lives in an attempt to free themselves from being shackled and owned.

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Yes, if I left my chair right now, I could walk there in less than 4 minutes.
Most of my family is buried there.
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SiO4 posted...

Yes, if I left my chair right now, I could walk there in less than 4 minutes.
Most of my family is buried there.

Do you have a family plot on your land? This isn't common in the USA, but I know it is moreso in other nations.

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MabusIncarnate posted...

Do you have a family plot on your land? This isn't common in the USA, but I know it is moreso in other nations.

No, it's just the Catholic Cemetary near me. It's somewhat coincidental.
It is tied to the same church I was baptized in. In fact, the only family member I can think of that wasn't baptized in the same church was my mom. But she's in there too. I could trot to here grave in about six minutes.
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Having said that, MabusIncarnate, it might as well be. tbh.
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